Slowcity.ca Open Mic: Parlour Greens, Masino, Porches, J.R.C.G., Walt Disco, Of Montreal, Michael Bernard Fitzgerald, and Orquesta Akokán
Read MoreParlour Greens, photo by Whitney Pelfrey
Gigs This Week: Ancient Shapes at Lee's Palace
By Will McGuirk
Ancient Shapes at Lee’s Palace Friday Nov. 18 2022. Tickets here.
Slowcity.ca Open Mic with Dany Laj and the Looks, Peter Katz, Flock of Dimes, 5omerset, Jiants, This Boy Electric, Alicia Lov, and Distant Matter
By Will McGuirk
Everyone knows the Laj, everyone knows Jeanette, everyone knows because they travel and tour and perform and party and chat afters and befores and genuinely dig it, dig it all, even the crappy bits, its all grist for a song, so keep ‘em guessing Dany but we know don’t we, its called resilience.
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“"Through a shared connection I had the huge honour of receiving an advance copy of renowned resilience researcher Dr. Robyne Hanley-Dafoe’s new book, which is a deeply powerful book about finding our path to everyday resiliency. To my great shock, right in the pages of the book, she talks about writing parts of the book to my music. When she reached out with this pretty unique idea of having a theme song for her book launch, I jumped at the chance. I was so deeply affected by the book and her story, I wanted to do it justice with my song. The themes of the book (developing resilience, finding our way through hard things, being ‘OK’) provided a rich emotional canvas to work from." - Peter Katz
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“I was half joking around thinking about how much time and energy I was spending obsessing over music stuff and feeling like a bit of a dork. I think everyone can relate to that in some way. But that's when it dawned on me that sometimes you might just have to learn to enjoy the rollercoaster because I knew that I was always going to continue making and sharing music, regardless of the results.” - Jiants
photo by Norman Wong
METZ releases 'A Boat to Drown In', new album 'Atlas Vending' drops in the Fall
By Will McGuirk
Intriguing video and then the Furry shows up unleashing the fury of this new track from METZ. “A Boat to Drown In” is the first single from the upcoming album, ‘Atlas Vending’, which will be out October 9, 2020, on Royal Mountain/ Sub Pop.
The single is a relentless headbanger, a numbing number that weighs in at over 7 minutes! and opens up a whole ship’s container of anticipation for the album itself. Its also the musical equivalent of pounding out day after day, blow after blow, a bloodied beating of this pandemic.
Tracklist
1. Pulse
2. Blind Youth Industrial Park
3. The Mirror
4. No Ceiling
5. Hail Taxi
6. Draw Us In
7. Sugar Pill
8. Framed by the Comet’s Tail
9. Parasite
10. A Boat to Drown In